November is a magical time of year! The weather is still a bit balmy, but the days are growing shorter and the lights are low. Time to kick off the season with cozy concerts, culinary delights, intriguing exhibitions – and maybe a movie or two! Here are some of LA's best bets to Fall Back this November.

Louis Vuitton X 468 N. Rodeo Drive Beverly Hills, CA 90210

Until Nov 10  Louis Vuitton unveils the exhibit Louis Vuitton X, an impressive journey through the Maison's 160-year history of creative exchanges and artistic collaborations. Across the two floors of the iconic 468 North Rodeo Drive building in Beverly Hills, Vuitton X draws on over 180 items from Louis Vuitton's archives and scenography to trace the Maison's pioneering journey. The exhibition brings together a remarkable collection of early twentieth-century special order trunks, beautiful art deco perfume bottles and window displays commissioned and designed by Louis Vuitton's grandson Gaston-Louis, iconic Monogram bags reworked by renowned artists and designers such as Karl Lagerfeld, Rei Kawakubo, Cindy Sherman, and Frank Gehry, and original collaborations and commissions by artists including Yayoi Kusama, Richard Prince, and Zaha Hadid. Free Admission.

Griffith Park Harvest FestIval 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Nov 10 Celebrate autumn’s glory in L.A.’s largest urban park! Now in its third year, the Griffith Park Harvest Festival is an all-day celebration that brings together visitors and residents from across Los Angeles on Veteran’s Day weekend. Join in the fun with live music, a variety of innovative food trucks, a beer garden featuring independent craft brews, dozens of local vendor booths, plus a Kids Zone that includes a climbing wall, bounce houses, pumpkin painting, and more. Once the sun sets, there will be a screening of the acclaimed Disney-Pixar film “Coco” under the stars. Free admission.

Dessert Goals Evolve Project LA 1921 Blake Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90039

Nov 9-10, 16-17  Don your tie-dye and tropical prints and gather your dessert-loving friends, because Dessert Goals is back in LA for the Tie Dye Tiki edition presented by Chase Sapphire®! General Admissions ticket includes entrance into the event for 1.5 hours; access to a drool-worthy roundup of 20+ of the best dessert vendors in LA (+ a few from New York), with desserts available for purchase; a Candy Bar with free candy; a savory Salt Bar to cleanse your palate; complimentary Rise Brewing Co cold brew coffee, Boxed Water, Vita Coco, OLIPOP + Koia;  one complimentary snack from My/Mo Mochi Ice Cream; and more. Share your fun in an Instagram Garden designed specifically for all your 'gramming needs, filled with custom Insta-friendly backdrops.

AFI Fest Various Venues

Nov 14 -21 AFI FEST presented by Audi is a world-class event, showcasing the best films from across the globe to captivated audiences in Los Angeles. With a diverse and innovative slate of programming, the eight-day film festival presents screenings, panels and conversations, featuring both master filmmakers and new voices. Special events at the festival take place at iconic LA locations, such as the historic TCL Chinese Theatre and the glamorous Hollywood Roosevelt. Each year, AFI FEST showcases more than 125 films each year in several exciting sections which include Galas, Special Screenings, New Auteurs, Documentary, World Cinema, Cinema’s Legacy and Shorts. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognizes AFI FEST as a qualifying festival for both Short Films categories of the annual Academy Awards®.

Candlelight Concerts Immanuel Presbyterian Cathedral 3300 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90010

Calm your mind and experience classical music in a new light with these sensational concerts by candlelight in some of Los Angeles’ most beautiful churches. Simply known as Candlelight, this event invites everyone to relive the greatest works of classical music, from Vivaldi to Mozart to Bach, in an intimate atmosphere. And after having enormous success around the world—in cities like London, Manchester, Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, and NYC — the experience has finally made its way to the West Coast!

Manet and Modern Beauty Getty Center 1200 Getty Center Dr. Los Angeles, CA 90049

Edouard Manet was a provocateur and a dandy, the Impressionist generation's great painter of modern Paris. This first-ever exhibition to explore the last years of Manet's short life and career reveals a fresh and surprisingly intimate aspect of this celebrated artist's work. Stylish portraits, luscious still lifes, delicate pastels and watercolors, and vivid café and garden scenes convey Manet's elegant social world and reveal his growing fascination with fashion, flowers, and modern femininity, as embodied in the parisienne. This exhibition has been co-organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago. It is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

Every Living Thing: Animals in Japanese Art LACMA 5905 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90036

Every Living Thing: Animals in Japanese Art celebrates one of the most distinctive and compelling aspects of Japanese art: the depiction of animals. Underpinned by Japan's unique spiritual heritage of Shinto and Buddhism, the Japanese reverence for nature—and the place of animals within that realm—is expressed in sculpture, painting, lacquer-work, ceramics, metalwork, cloisonné, and woodblock prints. Lions, dogs, horses, oxen, cats, fish, insects, birds, dragons, phoenixes—animals warm and cold-blooded, real and imaginary—are meticulously and beautifully rendered in myriad works from ancient 6th-century clay sculpture to contemporary art. Arranged in themes such as Zodiac Animals, Animals from Nature, Religion, Myth and Folklore, and Leisure, the exhibition draws heavily from LACMA’s permanent collection and includes masterpieces from Japanese and American public and private collections, some of which are on view for the first time.

Tokyo Pop Underground Jeffrey Dietch Gallery 925 N Orange Dr. Los Angeles, CA 90038

Opens Nov 23 Until the Meiji Restoration in 1868, the Japanese language did not have a word for fine art. The word bijutsu was constructed, combining Chinese characters bi, for beauty, and jutsu, for craft. This hybrid term reveals the unique trajectory of Japanese contemporary art, different from the foundations of contemporary art in the West. Tokyo Pop Underground, curated by Tokyo gallerist Shinji Nanzuka, explores the complex history of Japanese contemporary art from the 1960s to the present through the works of seventeen artists who emerged from pop and underground culture. The artists in Tokyo Pop Underground reflect the strains in contemporary Japanese culture as it rebuilt itself after the ruins of war and confronts numerous natural disasters. Their work reflects what Nanzuka describes as “the crazy cross-cultural exchange” between the West, the East, and the Far East, shaping a new international artistic language.

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Halloween is creeping near – what are you going to do this year? Residents of The Mansfield have no fear! From haunted hayrides to fiendish festivals, ghoulish ghost tours, and hair-raising productions by LA Opera and LA Phil, LA is a goblern's delight, with scary celebrations guaranteed to make the spirits rise! If you're stumped for costume ideas, Hollywood Toys & Costumes has catered to movie studios, tourists and locals for over 50 years, offering an extensive inventory of costumes, masks, jewelry, make up, and novelties. So carve that pumpkin, don your cosume, and have yourself a Spooktacular Halloween!

Los Angeles Haunted Hayride Griffith Park  4730 Crystal Springs Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90027

Los Angeles Haunted Hayride has transformed the Griffith Park grounds into Midnight Falls, an eerie and mysterious fictitious village set in 1985, where time stands still and it's always Halloween. Within the foothills of Midnight Falls, the Haunted Hayride leads to a thrilling adventure of horrors afflicting the town. Out in the darkness, a portal has opened spilling hideous creatures from its rotted mouth. The spirit of Halloween comes to life surrounding helpless victims brave enough to board The Hayride. Other thrills and chills around Midnight Falls include Midnight Mortuary Haunted House; Roadkill Ranch, where mysterious ranch hands are responsible for collecting the main highway’s deceased varmints, with a twist; Trick-or-Treat maze; and three themed Escape Rooms.

Dia de los Muertos Hollywood Forever 6000 Santa Monica Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90038

Hollywood Forever’s 20th annual Dia de los Muertos celebration will take place on Saturday November 2nd, 2019. This year, the guiding theme is the Monarch Butterfly and its winter home, the Mexican state of Michoacán. Michoacán is also one of the two cultural heartlands in Mexico where the ancient traditions of Dia de los Muertos have been celebrated the longest and most vibrantly. $1 per ticket will be donated to the amazing ECOLIFE in support of their efforts to protect the monarch butterfly biosphere reserve in Michoacán, Mexico. 

Universal Studios Haunted Horror Nights 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, CA 91608

Enter a world more terrifying than you can imagine at Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights – the most intense, spine-tingling event to besiege Southern California – now with more mazes than ever. The studio that spawned the original monster movie genre, once again, breathes new life into your darkest nightmares – bringing deeper fears and more hair-raising encounters to all-new immersive worlds of the living, the dead, and the in-between.

West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval Santa Monica Blvd. between Doheny and La Cienega

Go there if you dare! The West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval is one of the largest and most unique Halloween gatherings around. Admission is free and no tickets are required. Bring your costume "A-game" but be warned, the competition is stiff! Enjoy multiple music stages blasting live sets and DJ tracks. Grab some grub at one of the many food trucks parked along the street, or drop into any Santa Monica Boulevard restaurants still serving! If you take a rideshare service, don't expect to get dropped off right at Santa Monica Boulevard—set your destination pin a few blocks away from the festival and walk. No backpacks, camera bags or totes allowed. Please carry items in clear plastic bags.

Haunted Howl-o-ween Party for Dogs Wag Hotels Hollywood 960 N Highland Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90038

Grab your pups and head over to the 6th Annual Haunted Howl-o-ween Party at Wag Hotels to benefit the Spay Neuter Project of Los Angeles (SNPLA). You'll find a haunted hotel waiting for you and your pooch to explore, with tricks and treats around every corner! 100% of ticket and silent auction proceeds will go directly to the Spay Neuter Project of Los Angeles to support the amazing work they do to help decrease the homeless pet population across the Los Angeles area. Wag Hotels is a full service dog & cat hotel featuring boarding, training, spa services and doggy daycare. 

LA Opera Psycho Live Ace Hotel 929 S Broadway Los Angeles, CA 90015

Experience Alfred Hitchcock’s classic Psycho, featuring the LA Opera Orchestra, on the big screen with live violins taking the shower scene to a whole new level of creep! You know the story: a secretary on the run, an isolated motel, and an awkward guy with some serious mother issues. Shown in the cavernous Spanish-Gothic Theatre at Ace Hotel in Downtown LA, LA Opera’s got the spooky vibes fit for your perfect Halloween. Norman invites you to a killer after-party on October 25th and October 31st, included with your ticket. Are you brave enough to enter our costume contest on October 31st? The top three winners will receive a prize (if you make it out alive).

The Hunchback of Notre Dame Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90012

Organist Clark Wilson sets a haunting scene as he accompanies the 1923 silent film The Hunchback of Notre Dame, featuring a legendary performance from Lon Chaney. Get a guided tour of the evening’s music before your concert at Upbeat Live! Key thinkers and guest musicians – including members of the LA Phil – share their expertise and offer historical and cultural context for your program’s pieces, giving you a deeper understanding of the music. This free event is held in BP Hall, accessible after your ticket is scanned.

The Natural History of Horror Natural History Museum 900 W Exposition Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90007

Just in time for Halloween, the Natural History Museum is presenting a spooky, homegrown Hollywood exhibition that reveals the science of the scary. Walk into the museum’s Grand Foyer, past a pair of dueling dinosaurs, toward the building’s northeast corner, and you’ll soon find yourself in a dark room flickering with hidden surprises. Your senses will tingle as you hear about the scientific experiments and discoveries that inspired filmmakers to create four of the world‘s most iconic movie monsters: the Creature from the Black Lagoon, Frankenstein, the Mummy, and Dracula. Whether these classics spotlighted sinister figures lurking in the shadows or creatures waiting unseen beneath the water, one thing is true: Each larger-than-life character had a surprisingly rich real-world backstory.

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